MR.OLYMPIA asked: The overnight guy Andrew is hard to take serious so I never listen to him anyways, but while I was waiting for the score updates he said he couldn’t respect a sport where the players wear ice skates. Is this kind of ignorance a badge of honor?
Rest of lineup don’t even try to learn about the sport. They fall back on old tired cliches of the sport.
Never mind the fact in markets that where always big Hockey has gotten greater ratings and attendance then the basketball team. Not to mention there are Hockey markets where people wouldn’t watch an NBA game if it was in their drive way.
Colin Cowherd on ESPN is another rabid Hockey Hater who thinks ESPN dropped the sport, because it is a dead sport. So that begs the question is Bowling taking the nation by storm or that ESPN made Arena Football so popular it had to shut down for the year or go into bankruptcy.
Lastly Mike Tirico and Scott Van Pelt have decided to just ignore the sport. Scott Van Pelt seems to think he’s too cool for school to be talking hockey. I bet if the New York Rangers where in the Stanley CUP he would be trying to jump on the band wagon. Because that’s all those ESPN guys seem to talk about 1994 and when Wayne Gretzky.
was playing.
Hey how about this when was the last time you heard of a Hockey player shooting people in a night club or a strip joint?
Just the other day in a college basketball game a guy got his face stomped on that just shows you how cowardly basketball players are. On top of that NBA is famous for fights spilling into the stands and yet somehow Hockey is a thug or violent sport love the double standard.
I’m no fan of Bettman either, but I would remind you that FOX was the network of the glowing red puck. ABC really didn’t show that much more Hockey then NBC.
Look I said this many times people need to be patient with Versus as there still only in their early years. I remember back in the day when ESPN had to show frisbee sports , AFL, and IVY league Football.
At least VS gives you more games come playoff time, even from Canada with CBC or TSN, something that ESPN-ESPN2 would never do. Remember they are to busy showing snow mobiles flying off of roof tops, spelling bee, hot dog eating contests and bass fishing.
MARVIN
